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The Amazing Psalm 23 – rewritten

This is a version of Psalm 23 for those who bow the knee to human government (which it seems to be much of the world in 2023). I’m writing a book (or trying to) called The Gospel of the State. It compares the dream of human government to the kingdom/ government of Jesus Christ.

My Government is my Shepherd

“My government is my shepherd so I shall not lack. It insults those I hate until I repay with my vote. It leads me into calm with free meds from Pharma. It restores my accounts with ‘rebates’ stolen from the rich. It borrows from our kids to inflate the cost of everything. But I don’t care because it leads me down paths of dependency for virtue’s sake. 

Yay though I approach the valley of death I won’t fear, because your meds dull everything. You meet some of my demands and you shield me from those I hate. My cup is filled for a time with handouts some one else paid for. Surely money and displays of virtue will follow me and I will meditate on my state Media… as long as it’s free.“

This negative version is a bit silly I know, but it is not far off for some people. 

Below is another version of Psalm 23, written in February 2023, a positive version with my interpretation in context of a government. 

The Lord is My Government

The Lord is my government who keeps me safe, fed, and clothed. So I lack nothing. My wants don't matter at all, because I adapt to his rich provisions. 

He makes me rest, he directs my life, he corrects my mistakes. He reparis my mind, my emotions, and my body with a rightous life and with a Holy vision. 

When my appointed times comes I now fear nothing, he even cares for me in death. He provides despite those who hate and steal from me. So much that my cup overflows. Goodness follows me now from infancy to the grave, and I will dwell with Him forever.

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Horrific Despair… into Joy Unspeakable

Look around in the world today and there are many reasons to despair. On many different levels in many different countries.

Minor despair of financial difficulties.

To the major despair of war coming to steal from and to murder entire towns of people.

When Jesus was betrayed, arrested, set up, tortured and killed slowly in public. What despair his followers and family must have felt. All seemed lost, all his teachings must have seemed in question. The entire religion of Judaism and belief he was the messiah dashed to pieces in their minds.

Life can very often tempt one to ask in despair:

“Who can live in such a world?”

“Why does everything have to be so hard?”

“Why are those people so cruel and selfish?”

“What are we going to do?”

“Are we even safe? Will we be able to buy food and stay in our homes?”

The resurrection of Jesus Christ turned this despair of humanity into joy unspeakable.

Unspeakable because it is inexplicable. For those in Christ it bubbles up from within, in the midst of terrible life situations.

Joy because our days of death and suffering are numbered. Precisely numbered and meticulously planned out. Not indefinite, not forever, not alone.

Our suffering and deaths are for a particular purpose and appointed at a particular time. (See Hebrew 9:27).

Furthermore Jesus himself promises to strengthen and be with us as we suffer. Even further we are actually partaking in the sufferings of Christ. They actually are his sufferings if we can understand spiritual reality. All our suffering in this world is a result of Satan’s lashing out against Jesus Christ. As Jesus expands and takes back his humanity and his earth it terrifies and likely infuriates Satan and his principalities and powers.

But their end is coming. New bodies, new hope, new future, new heavens, new earth, eternal growth, eternal expansion, eternal glorification, and more are all in store for Jesus Christ. And for us also, if we are in Him.

Therefore the Joy that is unspeakably wonderful cones bubbling up from within even at the prospect of suffering and death.

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The Spiritual Forces In Pursuit of Us

When we desert Jesus Christ we are sooner or later swept into a state of loss of control, we are swept into slavery of sorts and we are even sometimes ushered into mental illness.

One example of this is modern politics seen all over democracies and nations today.

It’s one thing to be socially and politically liberal ….but its entirely another thing to :

  • Censor free speech with impunity and insist that corporations censor the speech that angers you.
  • Vote cheat and vote-count cheat.
  • Abuse the public with firings from jobs and public shame with mandates for medicine that DOES NOT WORK!
  • Demand the freedom to kill unborn babies without so much as a pain killer. Why more cruelty to babies than cats?
  • Shamelessly Accuse opponents of the exact things you are doing in secret.
  • Violate basic biological science, and an abundance of common sense to teach kids that gender is a social construct.
  • Become violent against people who are not violent against you.

I could go on and on and there are examples on both sides of the isle to varying degrees in any time period.

But none of the stuff mentioned above is liberalism.

Instead it mankind being hard driven by a nefarious spiritual force that will do anything to usurp power over and remain over us, the peoples of every nation.

The apostle Paul referred to these nefarious spiritual forces as the principalities and powers. (Ephesiains) They are the wicked angelic spirits who’ve abandoned all assigments from the Lord. They are the displaced ‘gods’ of the nations, their days are numbered and tehy are in a state of rebellion and anticipation of their coming judgment.

Don’t fight these forces with human weapons, fight them with spiritual weapons of prayer, forgiveness and loving confrontation

Trump could not handle these forces. Conservative political activists and voters can not counter these forces. Only Jesus Christ working through a people can handle these goons the way they need to be handled.

Only Jesus Christ can counter spiritual forces as high and as powerful as we see working in societies around the world today.

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